Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 3 · Licensed source edition
The effects of mother-infant bonding on children's strengths and difficulties
Originally published 2025-01-06 · Heliyon
Elsevier · DOI 10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e41727 ↗
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How is a mother's early account of bonding connected to later descriptions of a child's strengths and difficulties?
The paper examines different stages of the relationship and encourages readers to keep the timing and informant of each measure clear.
Who was studied?
Mothers and their children assessed for early bonding and later strengths and difficulties
Age / stage: Infancy and childhood
Read with three questions
- How is a mother's early account of bonding connected to later descriptions of a child's strengths and difficulties?
- Whose observations or reports were used, and what competing explanations are compatible with them?
- Which features of the study population (mothers and their children assessed for early bonding and later strengths and difficulties) would matter when applying the findings in another setting?
Keep the limits in view
A mother's bonding report and a later rating of child difficulties capture different constructs. Associations across them cannot identify what caused later strengths or difficulties.
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Tomoko Kawasaki; Yoshikazu Noda; Yoshiyuki Hirano; Akiko Kawanami; Kenichi Sakurai; Chisato Mori; Eiji Shimizu (2025). The effects of mother-infant bonding on children's strengths and difficulties Heliyon. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e41727
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